TORNADO UPDATES: Zach Daniel in Oklahoma

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TORNADO UPDATES: Zach Daniel in Oklahoma

OKLAHOMA CITY (WTVR) – CBS 6 meteorologist Zach Daniel will be in tornado-damage Oklahoma beginning May 22. With resources there stretched thin, Zach will help our sister-station in Oklahoma City. In addition, Zach will provide reports for CBS 6 News and here on WTVR.com.

The seven children who died inside Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma, were in a classroom — not a basement — and they did not die from flooding, Moore Fire Department Chief Gary Bird told CNN on Wednesday. On Tuesday, the state’s Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb told CNN the kids had drowned in a school basement.

The mayor of tornado-ravaged Moore, Oklahoma, said he’ll try to get an ordinance passed requiring storm shelters or safe rooms in new housing projects. “I have six councilmen and I need four votes to get it passed,” Mayor Glenn Lewis told CNN on Wednesday.